Meet your president

Regent Dean Krogman, left, visits with District 7 Rep. Scott Munsterman, front right, at a 2011 Board of Regents town meeting at the Days Inn in Brookings. Krogman and his family have lived in Brookings since the 1960s, although he spends a lot of time traveling as a Regent and a lobbyist in Pierre. Register file photo

• Brookings’ Dean Krogman now president of Board of Regents, has worn a variety of hats

BROOKINGS – Dean Krogman says he and his wife Linda have been awfully lucky over the years since their college days at SDSU, as Dean has taken on a variety of jobs in several different fields but the family has never needed to move from Brookings.

“Pretty fortunate,” Krogman, 63, said last week. “My wife used to get nervous every four years, change of job.”

Linda, who holds master’s degrees in microbiology and chemical engineering, is very successful in her field and works as a focus factory manager for 3M, Dean said. The couple has three children – Matt, Ryan and Aaron – and seven grandchildren.